کباب

See also: كباب‎, کتاب‎, كتاب‎, and كناب‎

Persian

FWOTD – 3 January 2023

Iranian Persian	کباب
Dari	کباب
Tajik	кабоб (kabob)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kabɑːb/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /kabɑːb/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /kæbɒːb/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /kabɔb/

Noun

‎ (kabâb-e baxtiyâri, “Bakhtiyari kebab”, type of Iranian kebab)

کباب • (kabâb) (plural کباب‌ها‎ (kabâb-hâ))

kebab (roast meat dish)
(figurative) heart burning with emotion; heart being "roasted" with yearning or grief
‏‎‎
jegar-am kabâb šod.
I felt terribly sad.
(literally, “My liver became kebab.”)
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 13”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
  ‏لب و دندانْت را حقوق نمک
  هست بر جان و سینه‌هایِ کباب‎
  lab u dandân-t râ huqûq-i namak
  hast bar jân u sîna-hâ-yi kabâb
  Your lips and teeth owe rights of salt
  To the soul and chests of [our] sizzling hearts.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

dishes

جوجه‌ کباب‎ (juje kabâb, “jujeh kabab”)
شیش‌کباب‎ (šiš-kabâb, “shish kebab”)
طاس کباب‎ (tâs kabâb, “tas kabab”)
چلو کباب‎ (čelow kabâb, “chelow kabab”)
کباب بختیاری‎ (kabâb-e baxtiyâri, “Bakhtiari kebab”)
کباب برگ‎ (kabâb-e barg, “kabab barg”)
کباب ترش‎ (kabâb torš, “kabab torsh”)
کباب ترکی‎ (kabâb-e torki, “doner kebab”)
کباب کوبیده‎ (kabâb kubide, “kabab koobideh”)

other

کباب خانه‎ (kabâb xâne, “kebab restaurant”)
کباب کردن‎ (kabâb kardan, “to roast; to afflict emotionally”)
کبابی‎ (kabâbi, “kebab roaster; roasting, roastable”)
کباب‌پز‎ (kabâb-paz, “kebab roaster”)

Descendants

→ Bengali: কাবাব (kabab), কবাব (kobab)
→ Chagatai: کباب‎ (kabāb)
- Uyghur: كاۋاپ‎ (kawap)
- Uzbek: kabob
→ Hindustani: kabāb
Hindi: कबाब

Urdu: کباب‎
→ Kazakh: кәуап (käuap), кәуәп (käuäp)
→ Kyrgyz: кебеп (kebep)
→ Marathi: कबाब (kabāb)
→ Pashto: کباب‎ (kabãb)
→ Punjabi: ਕਬਾਬ (kabāb)
→ Sarikoli: kabub
→ Tatar: кәбаб (käbab)
→ Yazghulami: kabób

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “کباب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Urdu

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (kabâb).

Noun

کباب • (kabāb) m (Hindi spelling कबाब)

kebab

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